Wow, lots going on. This’ll be a long boring one in hopes of being able to be a bit more narrowly focused in the future.

I’ve become pleasantly addicted to World of Warcraft. I have a guy I’m interested in who has just moved to town (and is staying with me till he can move into his apartment). My yard looks like a jungle from the lack of dry days to mow and weed. My little brother graduated high school and I went back to Minnesota (possibly for the last time) to attend. A high school friend that I haven’t seen in nearly a decade is visiting me in the middle of his cross-country trip. The orthodontia is going fairly well and might even come off in a few months.

Let’s start at the beginning. World of Warcraft rocks. My internet service (some have tried to convince me that it’s my router, but they’ve been proven wrong) seems a bit spotty at times, but in general, WoW has been pretty smooth sailing. It can be much more fun than City of Heroes/Villains due to the extra content it has (it’s not just “mission mission mission”, there’s auctions and items and professions, which are cool), but it can also be a drag (no quick way to travel for a very very long time).

Moving on to the next item, I met a fun, geeky guy online who lived eight-hours-by-car away. He was graduating with a Computer Science degree this spring, so I tried hooking him up with a job here, but the interviews didn’t go as well as we’d both hoped. He came back to interview for a contract position and got that one. Now, he’s in town and staying with me till his apartment opens up. We’re WoWing together. :)

It has been unseasonably wet . Yeah, it rains in Seattle—all freakin’ winter—but the sun comes out in the spring and stays out till fall. Or so it was for the past seven years. This year decided it wanted to be special, so it just kept right on raining. While it has helped the yard stay green and the plants grow, it has also kept the weeds green and helped them grow, too. That, the entertaining, and the trip to Minnesota (oooh, look at that, foreshadowing!) have all conspired against me and my yard plans so far this growing season. I don’t know if I’ll really get back into it soon enough to do anything spiffy this year, but we’ll see. I’ll leave the story about what I found buried in the yard while I was digging up my raised beds for another time. Suffice it to say that I hate the previous owners of my house even more now, which I wasn’t quite sure was possible. I keep amazing myself.

Speaking of Minnesota (a segue built on previous foreshadowing... I’m a literary genius), I was just there a couple weeks ago for my little brother’s high school graduation. My parents are building a nice house out in the Black Hills of South Dakota and selling off the house they’ve lived in for the past 16 years, so chances are that I won’t be getting back toward Minnesota for a long while. I was able to catch up with a bunch of friends while I was out there, which was nice. My first boyfriend back when I was 18 now has a kid! Wiggy.

A high school friend who has been living in Boston (after having been a nuclear engineer in the Navy, married, and divorced) decided to take a cross-country road trip this summer and has been hanging out with me for the past week. He’s a great guest. I’m a horrible host. Note to possible future hosts of out-of-town visitors out there: it is impolite to impart your World of Warcraft addiction onto visitors.

“Your bite is unsurpassed.” That was my orthodontist talking. Heh. Apparently, the orthodontia are going well. My bite has completely changed and my massive overbite has been changed into a proper overbite. I think the next time I go in (early next month), I’ll get the final final wire, so then it’s just a matter of very fine tuning. Very cool.

Though it’s not mentioned up there, work is going well. I had a few stumbling blocks getting back into the groove after the Minnesota trip, but am grooving well now. I just installed the Office 2007 Beta 2 yesterday and aside from having the Windows Search Service bring my system to its knees begging for mercy (I’ve now disabled it and can again experience the wonders of computing), it’s pretty cool—and much better than the first beta. In fact, I’m using Word’s blog feature to blog this right now. I can type it all up in Word and publish it to my MSN Space with the click of a button. Hot! Okay, I’d better click that button now; lunch break is about over.